The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-17
FEELING AT MONTREAL.


FEELING AT MONTREAL.
The Orange Meeting at Toronto Looked Upon
Serious Mistake.
MONTREAL, May 16-The Orangemen, at
least that section of the order which threatens
on the editor OF United Ireland have put
their foot in it. This is the verdict of their own
friends, while the Catholics, who have nothing
to do with the matter. seem satisfied to look on
and laugh. The Orange meeting at Toronto on
Saturday furnishes opportunity for more COM
ment on their conduct by their own supporters
than any yet made by their bittersst opponents
Take, for example, the Montreal Gazette,
Conservative and government organ. To find
in Its columns anything laudatory of
Orangemen would be not less surprising than to
find Major Saunderson or Colonel King -Harman.
the leader of the Ulster Orangemen, assailing
his followers in the House of Commons. The
Gazette has lea6ing editorial this morning on
the Toronto meeting, of which it says
tIt must be said that some OF the speakers at
the anti-O'Brien meeting at Toronto were more
earnest than wise. They fell into ways that
they themselves. in common with tremendous
majority of the people in this country, condemn
IN the agitator whose presence on the mission he
has taken up the Canadians resent. Some
things were said before the ten or twelve thou
sand persons gathered in the Queens Park on
Saturday that will rankle in the minds of other
citizens who, while not indorsing the policy that
makes the Dominion a battlefield for Irish
the movement with which Mr. OBrien is
pected. and will feel that they have been
needlessly hurt by words that would not have
Aaen called forth had wiser counsels prevailed
all the cause of the present turmoil stayed at
lr-xne. Thus there is danger of collision, and
sven though due care be taken by the authori
ties to prevent violence. there is almost sure to
be a certain amount of trouble, through people
taking sides in quarrel that has been thrust
upon them. We sincerely hope that wherever
MIR. O'Brien determines on going he will be left
in peace and that those who can not justify his
mission will keep away.
Lord Lansdowne's hand is plainly visible in
this, just as in the following, which is an ed
itorial in the Montreal Herald. whose politics ara
Liberal, but which opposed, at the beginning.
O'Brien's invasion almost as vigorously as the
Gazette itself. The paper says:
ut would not only be proper, but it seems alb
soutelv necessary. that the statements made by
Mr.. OBren in regard to the treatment of the
Luggacurran tenants shonld be met and mega
tived, if it is possible. Lansdnwne does not
appear to have knowledge of these transactions
His agent, of course, may be said to
represent him, but with his Lordsnp
one side of the Atlantic and the negotiations
proceeding the other between the
agent and the representatives of the tenants, it
might well De assumed that the negotiations
might go and be disposed of before Lans-
downe would be informed of the details. But
for the eviction of large bodies of poor people
from his estates. Lord Lansdowne is res ponsbe,
and the why's and wherefores of such action are
as as deoataole 10 his case as in any other case.
! he fact that he is Governor-general of Canada
supplies no reason for silence. The question is
agitating the English-speakiug people of Britain,
Canada and the United States. It matters little
how or by whom the agitation is brought about.
Very serious accusations have been made. If
they affected the Premier of Canada. they would
have TO be answered. They ought all the more
to be met and answered when directed against
the Governor general of Ce NADIA The question
is: Arethese things true? The refusal of a hall
to Mr.. O'Brien in Toronto is The
threat of the Orangemen of Kingston not to per-
NIT him to enter the city is answer The
same class of people We're once the means of
preventing the Prince of Wales from landing at
Kingston. Mr. OBrien's allegations would still
exist, and would still have to be met, whether
MIR. OBren is refused All entrance or speech in
the cities of Ontario not. 1t must be con-
fessed that the amount Of light cast on that side
of the controversy Is not great There is much
abuse of Mr.. O'Brien but plentiful lack of
facts What is needed jusB now is circum-
stantial statement from the landlords point
of view. of his relations with his tenants.
AS royal commissions have investigated
such matters and the people of Great Britain
have been agtated on similar subjects for many
years and the press and electors have such ques-
tions constantly before them, it cannot be said
that the dispute is one of a private character
1t is unfortunately very much of public ques-
ton, and the sooner both sides are heard from
the better. The only other side SO far his
been shown by the Rev. Canon Dumoulier, one
lied O'Brien one of the most audacious liars
of the present time"
These two editorials have caused almost the
entire Province of Quebec to wheel inso line. if
not exactly in favor of O'Brien, at least against
the Orangemen and their threats. To-day
everybo here is talking of what is likely to
occur at Toronto when O'Brien gets there.
Speaking OF the Orange meeting there. Mr..
0 OBrien. full of gladness, said it was the best
thing that could have happened. Why" said
he. with Lord Lansdowne now it is a case of
save me from my friends. Haven't the Orange
men got him and his cause into the very same
stew that the bigoted little Tory, Charles Lewis,
got the government into the other day In rela-
tion to the charges of the London Times, which
he insisted should be summoned to the bar of
the House of Commons, who, to his astouish-
ment and to the CONSERVATION OF the govern
ment. united in vetoing the motion, because the
proposed action supported hg the whole
force of the Irish partyl Personally, l am de-
lighted at their most extravagant utter ances.
and personally / am fearless. l predicted that
Prof. Goodwin Smith would at last find his level,
which prediction IS fulfilled, see he was one
of the most blatant speakers at the Orange
meeting. If any differences existed among the
Nation alsfs of Toronto. the publication OF Arch
bishop Croke's letter has swept them away and
caused them all to unite one"
Dean Ramsey. an English clergyman residing
at ST. Hughes. thirty miles from here, who has
invited Mr. OBrien to stay at his place for some
time. came to town to-day. and before the editor
of United Ireland started for Toronto gave him
his blessing and said, '.God prosper you"
Mr. O'Brien's election, unopposed. for the
northeast division of Cork. has added to the pop
his arrival in Canada. cablegrams were published